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The internet is marvellous tool ☺. The leader of the team that found the stirrup fragment during excavations in the 1970s writes this in the report published in the Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy:That's it!
I have this recently published book about Irish pilgrimage to Santiago, I may have a look at it again.
I was more thinking of reading up again on when and how pilgrims from Ireland went to Santiago. ☺Bernadette Cunningham's Medieval Irish Pilgrims to Santiago de Compostela provides a treasury of information on all matters except the finding of stirrups with embossed scallop shells!
Wandering around the Keepers of the Gael exhibition in Galway City Museum - a welcome refuge from the annual Christmas shopping spree - I spotted an unusual object on display: part of a cast bronze riding stirrup bearing an ornamental plate in the form of a well-worn scallop shell. Form has given way to function, with its elongated shaped bearing a curious resemblance to a bishop’s mitre. The item was discovered at Clontuskert Abbey, and the curator, who has dated it to the thirteenth or fourteenth century, surmises that its owner may have returned from a pilgrimage to Santiago. Although I’ve come across innumerable commemorative coins, medals, plaques, pins and badges, this is the first material evidence I’ve seen of a pilgrimage on horseback. Has anyone else come across something similar?
and I have another excuse to go browsing through archaeological catalogues here. though from the top of my head I don't remember any such lovely stirrups.This one?
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Yes, please, @ivar.could we perhaps have a history subforum of some kind? that would cover topis from prehistory to roman to medieval to let's say pre-second world war?
Have you looked in the Invierno subforum?I'm looking for this thread that mentiones roman progress through galicia via old celtic roads possibly marked by menhirs. without much success.
I assume you've seen it @caminka , but bumping it for others who might have missed it. (Big time beware: don't go near the link unless you have serious rabbithole time.)Here is a link to an ongoing multilayered Swedish Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire and routes throughout Europe which you might find of interest.
I did now. there is no thread title that evokes a memory. I think it was a more general question so it's probably in miscellaneous forum. I tried the search engine, but nope.Have you looked in the Invierno subforum?
My interest is hugely piqued, as I don't remember seeing this one, and it sounds right up my alley.
it doesn't work for me. it may be just the library computer with not very updated processors.
A pity, because it's a fabulous site.it doesn't work for me. it may be just the library computer with not very updated processors
... could we perhaps have a history subforum of some kind? that would cover topis from prehistory to roman to medieval to let's say pre-second world war?
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one of the reasons I write my own guidebooks. I love medieval history (read: frescoes, portals, corbels, cute romanesque churches etc.) and dolmens (and co.) especially and I like to know where I have to detour to view them. research before going is just as important part of my camino experience as is being there and experiencing it.Just to add onto the convo..... many pilgrims dont realise or appreciate the historical importance of the camino i.e the local history of the places they are staying for the night!! I.e as only doing the frances once and going next year again to do a different route, i was too busy and too tired to even think about or appreciate the road or villages i was passing through in the historical sense, something i will appreciate more the next time hopefully with some research
ps: could we perhaps have a history subforum of some kind? that would cover topis from prehistory to roman to medieval to let's say pre-second world
Here is the new address, and a screenshot of what the map looks like, zoomed in to what is now the Viejo between Pamplona and Vitora, as well as the area to the South traversed many years later by the Camino Frances:It doesn't work for me. it may be just the library computer with not very updated processors.
I can see it nowHere is the new address, and a screenshot of what the map looks like, zoomed in to what is now the Viejo between Pamplona and Vitora, as well as the area to the South traversed many years later by the Camino Frances:
Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire
this is me pestering @ivar for the history-art sub-forum.
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